Re: Which trees are supported (Was: Re: [qemu-upstream-4.2-testing test] 77180: regressions - FAIL)

[Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>]

On Thu, 2016-01-07 at 11:22 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> So this arose because Stefano was unaware that 4.2 was no longer
> supported.
> Neither am I ever confident about where the cut-off lie, e.g. I
> always have
> to ask if I am doing backports for a security issue.
> 
> We should add rows to 
> http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Release_Features right
> under Initial Release giving first the date until which that tree is
> supported with backports and second the date until which security
> support
> will exist. We might also want to add a third "status" row. e.g.
> "Supported", "Security Support only", "EOL" (we'll deal with extended
> support by a third party when that next arises).
> 
> I'm happy to make the edits, however I don't know what dates I would
> write 
> here. Taking it to be 18 months of Support and a further 18 months of
> security support I would get:

>                         Xen 4.0         Xen 4.1         Xen 4.2         Xen 4.3         Xen 4.4         Xen 4.5         Xen 4.6
> Initial Release         7 April 2010    25 March 2011   17 Sept 2012    9 July 2013     10 March 2014   15 Jan 2015     13 Oct 2015 
> Supported until         EOL - ???       EOL - ???       EOL - ???       EOL - Jan 2015  EOL - Sept 2015 July 2016       April 2017
> Security support til    EOL - ???       EOL - ???       EOL - ???       July 2016       March 2016      Jan 2017        Oct 2018

George pointed out that 4.4 only has 6 months security support here,
which is just me counting wrong I think. It should be March 2017.

Likewise 4.5 followed suite.

Both of them should have been 1 year later. I have updated the wiki.

Ian.